| Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 דפים
...the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned. PRUDENCE. THOSE who, in consequence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the...reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous,... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1875 - 408 דפים
...concluding his " Life of Savage," Johnson says : " This relation will not be wholly without its use, if those who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity,... | |
| John Platts - 1876 - 986 דפים
...it was terminated, no comment can be deemed necessary. In his whole history, all those, " who in the confidence of superior capacities or attainments disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity,... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 דפים
...be wholly without its use, if those who languish under any part of his sufferings shall be enabled to fortify their patience by reflecting, that they...confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1881 - 314 דפים
...concluding his " Life of Savage," Johnson says : " This relation will not be wholly without its use, if those who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of pruduce ; and that negligence and irregularity,... | |
| Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 דפים
...guard your own guards ?" 200 Those who in the confidence of superior capacities or attainments neglect the common maxims of life, should be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; but that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous,... | |
| 1883 - 492 דפים
...There is great truth in the solemn words with which Dr. Johnson concludes his biography of Savage:— Those who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, must be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence; that negligence and irregularity long... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 474 דפים
...wholly without its use, if those, who languish under any part of his sufferings, shall be , • enabled to fortify their patience, by reflecting that they...only those afflictions from which the abilities of i Savage did not exempt him ; on those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard... | |
| 1890 - 880 דפים
...memorial of his life. In concluding it, he says that the narrative may not be without its uses : "if those who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity,... | |
| 1891 - 556 דפים
...so. Coleridge. VALUE OF. Those who, in the confidence of superior capacities or attainments, neglect the common maxims of life, should be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; but that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous,... | |
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